Bill Text: NY A09453 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9453 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to sex trafficking and persons under eighteen years of age.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - referred to codes [A09453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09453-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9453
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN, DINOWITZ, ROBINSON, COLTON, BLAKE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. KAMINSKY -- read once and  referred  to
          the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sex trafficking of persons
          less than eighteen years old
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 5 of  section  230.34  of  the
     2  penal  law, as added by chapter 74 of the laws of 2007, is amended and a
     3  new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
     4    (h) perform any other act which would not in itself materially benefit
     5  the actor but which is calculated to harm the person who  is  patronized
     6  materially  with  respect  to  his or her health, safety, or immigration
     7  status[.]; or
     8    6. knowingly advancing prostitution of a  person  less  than  eighteen
     9  years old.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14030-01-6